A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads

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She teaches workshops on making prayer beads as a spiritual practice all over the world; her pieces have been worn by Ram Dass and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She is the author of A String and a Prayer. Her own spiritual practice includes beading, sitting meditation with both Christian and Buddhist communities, and practicing yoga and the Twelve Steps. Wiley's prayer beads are available through her website. Maggie Oman Shannon is a spiritual director and writer.

She lives in San Francisco. A String and a Prayer recounts the history and symbolism of prayer beads, teaches basic techniques for stringing beads and a host of other objects into prayer beads, and offers a variety of prayers and rituals to use Red Wheel Bolero Ozon.

A string and a prayer : how to make and use prayer beads

A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads. Eleanor Wiley , Maggie Oman Shannon. Eleanor Wiley and Maggie Oman Shannon have taken an ancient practice and made it new. A String and a Prayer recounts the history and symbolism of prayer beads, teaches basic techniques for stringing beads and a host of other objects into prayer beads, and offers a variety of prayers and rituals to use those beads on a daily basis. Beads have appeared throughout history. Prayer beads are used in the spiritual practices of cultures as diverse as the African Masai, Native Americans, Greek and Russian Orthodoxy, as well as the religious rituals of Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism.

But prayer is highly personal.

By infusing prayer beads with personal associations, we can keep our spirituality fresh. The beads are a device to help build and rebuild meaningful ritual in our lives. Saint Michael the Archangel is the most revered archangel within the Church throughout history and today.

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Please try again later. A solid survey of the spiritual and ritual use of beads. However, from an instructional standpoint this book is weak -- it has no photographs showing how to create the projects. Instead it has a spare sprinkling of simplistic line drawings. If you already have experience with beading, this book will offer some inspiration. Otherwise, another book might be a better starting point. I have really enjoyed reading this bk. It has quite a bit if information and touches on things I hadn't even thought of. It is a nice overview.

I found that there were a couple of nice ideas I hadn't seen before: A woman who had lost custody of her children, for example, made a string for each of them and told them when they held them she would be holding their hands. Another woman whose cat had died made a string using the colors of her cat's fur, and little charms that reminded her of her cat. The other idea I liked was making a strand that was not in the form of a circle, but had a loop on one end and a pendant on the other, rather like a button and buttonhole.

The strand could be buttoned into a circle around the wrist as a bracelet or around the neck as a neclace. But beyond that I was a little disappointed in the book. It seemed mostly to be about prayer beads as an art form, rather like any other book on jewelry art, but there wasn't much about their actual use in prayer. There was a little lip service to prayer beads in world religions including modern uses , but not much detail on the subject.

I've found that sites on the Internet have a lot more information than her book did. There was a nice compilation of prayers at the end, but nothing about how to arrange them for use with prayer beads. The beads shown in the photos were in random arrangements, chosen more for length than number of prayers.

The instructions would talk about using enough beads to make the necklace two feet long, for example. Anyway, just my reaction. I've found so very much great information on the 'Net that the book just seemed to fall short.

A String and a Prayer

Actually Basil Pennington's book on the Catholic rosary "Praying by Hand" had more information on prayer beads in world religions than Wiley's book did. This is an awesome book with lots of good information. One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Very interesting to get into the behind the scenes and mindfullness of this process. I enjoyed reading this book as stringing prayer beads is a new experience for me.

I've worked many years making beaded jewelry but prayer beads is a new concept. I, like so many of the other reviewers, would have liked color photos. I think color photos would have added significant value to the book. This book is a very basic intro to prayer beads. It's supposed to be. However, I thought it endlessly explained why I should make prayer beads and gave me a lot of gift ideas.

It did not satisfactorily explain how to use them. It also seemed like the beads were more of an object of prayer than any deity. I enjoyed reading this book. The history of beads and prayer beads was very interesting. I am beginning to collect beads to make my own prayer beads.

However, I had to glue the binding back to the book. The three books I had ordered were not packed well and in transportation one book crunched the two others. See all 29 reviews. Most recent customer reviews.

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